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all the new frameworks

Don’t be a jerk. To get a NEW job, they all want some different thing. React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, HTMX, etc. Backend is even worse. PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, .NET, Java.

Don’t even get me started on all the CI/CD nonsense.

I can see you’re not a web developer, and so you just simply don’t understand what a mess web work is.

is really worth it.

I don’t choose what I get paid to do. Jobs are scarce.

misguided

Every job I have ever had involved a one-up who I thought was misguided.

they need to be replaced

No shit. If there was one way to get me to lose all respect for you it’s that. Suggest the obvious that won’t happen. Ffs.

learn new things.

You’re not learning things that you need to get a job that you don’t want to learn. Clearly you have no concept of this. Gosh, that sounds nice—dick.

I’m glad you’ve got a fantastic work life. I don’t. 90% of developers don’t.

And because of that, a huge chunk of us are checking out because no matter how hard we try, layoffs are usually every year. And talent doesn’t keep your job.